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WHIP.

No. 473,695. Patented Apr. Z6, 1892.

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WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,695, dated April 26, 1892. Application filed July 3, 1891. Serial No. 398,353. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH P. COUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vestfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Whips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention in whips is particularly to improve the center of the whip-that is to say, to have a central section, especially at the tip, which is of rawhide, and to provide a covering which is water-proof and flexible for the said rawhide center, and which, while it serves the principal purpose of excluding moisture from the center, also increases the elasticity or pliability of the whip,

and which, by the manner of its application,

is most inexpensive.

The invention consists in the peculiar and specific arrangement or combination of parts, substantially as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be set forth in the claim.

Referring tothe accompanying drawings, in which the present improved whip is illustrated so far as it is possible to illustrate the same by drawings, Figure l is a view of the whip as a whole, with outer portions broken away for clearer illustration. Fig. 2 is a view of the rawhide center. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the center, with the tubular rubber covering shown as partially and wholly enveloping the rawhide section. Fig. 5 is aview showing the center further iinished and as spliced to the butt center. Fig. 6 is a view showing the further make-up of the whip embodying theimproved center.

In the drawings, a represents the center of the whip, more particularly the center of the tip portion thereof and which usually is of a length corresponding to about one-half that of the entire whip. The said center is tapered and usually twisted and rounded, substantially as shown.

Z2 represents a length or section of tube formed of elastic india-rubber and of a length for each whip-center less than that of the rawhide section a.

In practice the tube-section is about onehalf the length of the rawhide part, such length being sucient. The said rubber-tube section is closed at its upper end and placed over the smaller end of the rawhide-center section, and is then drawn down to inclose, by stretching, the entire length of the rawhide and incloses the butt-end of the rawhide center, the tube end being closed and conined by winding or otherwise. The rawhide section a., entirely closed by the stretched rubber tube, is then overlaid by one or more thicknesses of braid or plaiting f, which covers the center practically from end to end and holds the thin and attenuated tubular layer ot' rubber firmly upon the rawhide and serves as a guard and reinforcement for preventing rupture or abrasion of the rubber. The center thus formed of the rawhide, inclosing stretched rubber tube and the plaiting, is now spliced to the butt-center g of the whip, which is usually of rattan, although the rawhide, stretched rubber tube, and overlying plaiting may be of a length substantially as great as that of the entire whip, and thereby constitute the buttcenter. Sidings h of rattan are next applied for stocking up the whip, being cemented to the braid or plaiting covering the rubber tube which incloses the rawhide, for while the glue or cement would not adhere to the rubber the braid constitutes a most efficient medium for insuring the coninement of the rattan sidings by gluing to the center, and the sidings are finally covered with an overlying plaiting fr', as usual.

Improvements of a most practical, useful, and desirable nature are derived from the construction of the whip substantially as specified, for the elastic india-rubber tubing, which is susceptible of great elongation, is most cheap, being already found in all sizes and at low price in the market, and being easy of' application, but short sections thereof are required for covering the entire length of the rawhide employed in the center. The rubber tube, being without seam and elongated, most intimately adheres to the rounded rawhide, and with the plaitinga most compact, flexible, and water-proof center is produced.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to apply rubber material over the outer stocking or sidings of the whip, which is caused to adhere thereto and to be without seam by vulcanization on the sidings after application thereto, and I am also aware that so-called IOO whip-linings have been embodied in whips held against movement on said center, plaitwhich consist in wrappings of rubber cloth ing applied over the stretched rubber tube,

over the sidings; but none of these things do which maintains thelatterin its stretched con- I Claim; but dition,sidingsglued or cemented tothe plaited 15 5 l/Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by center, and an outer covering for the sidings,

Letters Patent, is substantially as described and shown, for the` A Whip having a center of rawhide, a rubpurposes set forth. ber tube normally of less length than said FRIEDRICH l). COUSE.

rawhide center and applied and stretched /Vtnesses: ro thereover to inclose the entire length of the WVM. S. BELLOWS,

rawhide center and having its opposite ends J. W. GARFIELD. 

